Aaron Haddam

Aaron Haddam was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-KY) during the American Civil War. Haddam was the leader of the conservative faction of border and western Republicans in the House during the war, and he was influenced by Republican Party founder Francis Preston Blair. In January 1865, he supported Democrat Fernando Wood's motion to postpone the vote on the Thirteenth Amendment until the Confederate peace offer at the Hampton Roads Conference could be heard, not willing to anger the Confederates and prolong the war. He was satisfied when he heard that the peace commissioners were not in Washington DC, although he did not know that they were still meeting with the government at nearby Hampton Roads.